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MEK POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE Two political prisoners in Iran, who are supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK), have been on a hunger strike since October 17 over the poor living condition in prison. Mehdi Farahi Shandiz and Mohammad Riazat,  MEK  supporters who protested the lack of facilities and warm water in the central prison of Karaj, were relocated to solitary confinement the day after their hunger strike began, according to the Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners. Riazat was arrested following the widespread anti-regime protests organized by the MEK last August before being temporarily released on bail. He was then sentenced to three years in jail on charges of “insulting the Founder and Supreme Leader” and “propaganda against the regime” by Judge Mehdi Zeinali of the criminal revolutionary court. Riazat was transferred to Karaj’s Central Penitentiary on December 10. Shandiz, w...

Inside Iran’s Brutal Death Camps Where Thousands of MEK Members Were Massacred – Daily Star Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  21 October 2019 . Britain's Daily Star has interviewed opponents of Iran’s regime who told the paper that at least 30,000 political prisoners, mainly members of the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran  (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) , were executed in Iran during the  1988 massacre  and that  the death camps are still open.   Speaking exclusively to Daily Star Online, some of the former political prisoners spoke out about their horrifying experiences in the torture chambers of Iran's regime.   Starting in July 1988, and lasting for around five months, Ruhollah Khomeini launched a fatwa against members of the  MEK .   Daily Star Online wrote  on Sunday that it visited the unofficial headquarters the regime's opponents in north London and spoke to former prisoners and relat...

Iranian political prisoner deprived of medical care Iranian political prisoner Majid Assadi (File) Iran, October 15, 2019 —Iranian regime authorities in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, are hindering the medical care that political prisoner  Majid Assadi  needs by not permitting his transfer to a hospital. This political prisoner is suffering from  various illnesses , including his glands and digesting system, eyes and spinal cord. Prison authorities are demanding that he wear prison clothing when sent to a hospital. This is a method used by Iranian regime authorities to humiliate political prisoners when sent outside of their controlled facilities and into the public. Back in November 2017, Assadi was sentenced by a regime court to six years behind bars on vague charges, such as “threatening national security through assembly and collusion,” and “propaganda against the state.” Back in late September of this year, a court hearing scheduled for A...

Rights Groups Urge UN to Investigate the 1988 Massacre of MEK Activists Written by  Shamsi Saadati  on  04 October 2019 . Human rights groups have called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to launch an independent investigation into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners, primarily affiliated to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI,  Mujahedin e Khalq or MEK ), by the Iranian regime. Numerous non-governmental organizations made the appeal to the UN human rights chief during the Human Rights Council’s 42 nd  session in Geneva. The actions by the NGOs included addresses at the Council’s plenary, written submissions and organizing side events about the  1988 massacre . More than 30,000 political prisoners, mainly MEK activists and supporters, were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988. NCRI-FAC ✔ @iran_policy Iran's 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoner...